Wire fence.



PATENTED MAY 1, 1906 S. E. JACKSON.

WIRE FENCE. APP'LIOATION FILED SEPT. 22, 1904.

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SHELDON E. JACKSON, OF WESTON, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO EPHRAIMB. LEE, OF WESTON, MICHIGAN.

WIRE FENCE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Eatented May 1, 1906.

Application filed September 22,1904. Serial No. 225,492.

To all 707mm it may concern Be it known that I, SHELDON E. Jaoxsox, acitizen of the United States, residing at Weston, in the county ofLenawce and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful ire Fence,of which the following is a specilication.

This invention relates to wire fences, and has for its object to providea novel form of lock for connecting runner and stay wires at their pointof crossing in a manner to secure a strong and durable connectionbetween the fence-wires and to obtain a compact lock free fromprojections.

It is fin'thermore designed to form the look from a single piece of wirewhich is capable of being initially wrapped about the fence-wires andthen subjected to the action of dies to clamp the lock-wire upon thefence in its completed condition.

Vith these and other objects in view the present invention consists inthe combination and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter morefully described, shown in the ac companying drawings, and mrticularlypointed out in the appended claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation illustrating arunner-wire and a stay-wire connected in accordance with the presentinvention. Fig. 2 is a sectional view on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3is a cross-sectional view on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a rearview of Fig. 1.

Like characters of reference designate corresponding parts in each andevery figure of the drawings. I

The present fence is made up of runner and stay wires, as usual, one ofthe runners being indicated at 1, while 2 designates a stay crossing therunner at substantially right angles thereto and connected by means ofthe lock of the present invention, which is formed from a single lengthof wire. The middle portion 3 of the lock-wire extends obliquely ordiagonally across the joint between the runner and the stay, with oneportion 4 lapped beneath the runner and thence upwardly, as at 5, anddiagonally across the other side of the stay in substantial parallelismwith the intermediate portion-IS, the upper end of the wire being bentaround the stay, as at 6, with its terinlnal inclined downwardly towardthe runner. The other end portion of the lock is bent over the top ofthe runner, as at 7, and then bent downwardly across the front of therunner to the opposite side thereof in substantial parallelism with theportion 5, with its free extremity 9 bent or hooked around the rear sideof the stay and directed toward the runner.

From the foregoin description it will be noted that the midd 0 portionof the lockwirc extends diagonally across the joint between the runnerand stay in contact with the latter and is then looped in oppositedirections across the front of the stay and the runner, whereby thelatter is embraced at op posite sides of the stay in a snug and securemanner, while the extremities of the lockwire are hooked to the stay andinclined backwardly toward the runner, so as to avoid objectionableprojections. This peculiar manner of bending the lock-bar produces twowraps diagonally across the front of the joint between the runner andthe stay, with its wraps extending in opposite directions, one from theunder side of the runner and the other from the upper side of therunner, while the intermediate single wrap 53 extends diagonally acrossthe stay at the rear of the fence.

It will of course be understood that after the initial bending of thelock-wire around the stay and runner it is subjected to the action ofdies, thereby to compress the lock snugly about the fence-wires and intocompact form, with its extremities drawn into snug engagement with thestay-wire, so as to avoid projections. In subjecting the lockwire to thedies the runner and stay are of course bent or kinked, as at 10 and 11,respcctively, and the bends or coils of the lockwire snugly embrace thebent or kinkcd portions of the fence-wires, so as to prevent endwiselooseness or play thereof, and hence secure a tight and durable joint atthe point of crossing of the fence-wires.

While the present lock has been shown and described with its endportions looped around the stay-wire, it is equally effective with itsends looped about the line-wire, and I contemplate using botharrangements of the lock.

Having fully described the invention, what is claimed is A fencecomprising crossed runner and stay wires and a lock-wire having itsintermediate portion looped around the twO Wires at their point ofintersection and en- In testimony that I claim the foregoing as gagingthe crotches formed thereby, the termy own I have hereto afiiXed mysignature 1o minalfs of ifzhe lock-Wire being lofiped around in thepresence of two Witnesses. one 0 the ence-Wires at oints a ove and be- 5low the intermediate 105p, a d terminating SHELDON JACKSON 0n the sameside of the fen0e-Wire, and all of Witnesses: the loops being diagonallydisposed relatively H. O. RETAN, to the fence-wires. E. O. BREESE.

